This repository contains an Ansible playbook to create machines in Digital Ocean and add entries for each to DNS using the DNSimple API.

Installation

This project has a few python dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Note that this assumes you have a DigitalOcean and DNSimple account and have the relevant values stored in the following environment variable: DO_CLIENT_ID, DO_API_KEY, DNSIMPLE_EMAIL and DNSIMPLE_API_TOKEN.

ansible-playbook -i hosts provision.yml

The specific code here has a few hardcoded elements that you'll likely want to change for your own usage.

Generating configuration

A small script is provided to generate random names for use in provisioning machines. The names are used as both the name of the instance and as the subdomain so need a good degree of uniqueness.

go run printnames.go <number>

This will print a YAML formatted configuration file for use by ansible. You'll probably run something like:

go run printnames.go 200 > vars/droplets.yml